The document discusses the process of researching and analyzing other magazines to inform the creation of an RnB magazine. It describes finding magazines aimed at similar audiences, such as Q magazine, and analyzing their front covers, contents pages, and spreads. The document then analyzes how the author's magazine does or does not follow conventions from these reference magazines in terms of things like mastheads, color schemes, plugs, pictures, headlines, and writing styles.
3. After I had decided I was going to do an RnB magazine, I had to find three
magazines of the same genre. When researching, I couldn’t find many
RnB magazines, so I decided to look for magazines who would be
focusing at similar audiences, for example: Q isn’t a RnB magazine, it is
more of an Indie/Pop magazine, but I assumed they were aimed at similar
audiences due to the style of pictures, colours and text they both similarly
use. After finding what magazines I was going to use, I brought my own
copies of them and analysed each magazine’s front cover, contents page
& a double page spread.
4. In what ways does your
media product use,
develop or challenge
forms and conventions
of real media products?
5. On the masterhead, I didn’t use many
conventions. This is as firstly, I only
wanted my masthead to take up a small
percentage of the page, but also as I
wanted to put a plug in the top right hand
corner. However, Although I didn’t use the
same colours ect, I thought the red writing
was really eye catchy on Vibe magazine,
which encouraged me to go ahead with
the red box around my mast head.
I used the colour red as it is a very forceful colour and
illustrates importance and power.
I have followed conventions of the
boldness of my masthead. This is as I
wanted my audience to be able to spot
the magazine from a mile away, which is
also why I used white against red so it is
clear and stands out.
6. The fact that the writing is unadorned and white
dissimilarities the fact that around the master head is a
large red box. The colour red symbolises importance,
significance and also prominence, so the occurrence that
the box is red is really momentous as it gives the master
head more meaning. I followed the conventions of this
magazine as I thought the masthead was very eye catchy
and looked effective and successful.
I decided to add a black outline
on my masthead, just to make
it more bold and prominent.
This allowed it to stand out and
look more attention-grabbing.
7. I followed the conventions of the
colour scheme, I just added a black
outline around my writing to make it
more prominent.
I followed the conventions of It being in the top
left hand corner of my front cover
I didn’t follow the
conventions of a one
word masthead like “Q”
has.
8. Eye contact
Like Vibe magazine, I have
made sure that my front cover
model is making full eye contact
with the audience. This is to
make my readers feel more
connected with “Bella”.
Facial expression
I followed the conventions of the facial expressions that “Trey Songz”
was pulling on the front cover of Vibe magazine. “Bella’s” head is
slightly more forward to the rest of her body which is aimed to make
the readers feel more engaged with her, this is the same with Trey
Songz. Bella’s lips are almost pouting, but in a very naturalistic way,
which is exactly what Trey Songz is also doing. By doing these facial
expressions make the model’s look very powerful and “in control”
which is impression I wanted Bella to give off.
9. Facial Expression
I didn’t follow conventions of XXL when taking my pictures. This is as I
think the picture on your front cover should be of the model facing
forward as this would make the audience automatically catch eye
contact with them and make them engage more with the model and
would make them want to read the story more. I made “Bella” have
similar facial expressions to “Drake” as Drake looks powerful and
authoritative in his picture and that’s the image I wanted Bella to have.
Dress code
I decided not to follow the dress code
of Drake. I decided this as looking at
Drake he is rather wrapped up which
could give off the impression he is
quite a secretive and personal person,
where as, I didn’t want to give that
image with Bella.
10. Dress Code
The only thing I have done similarly on my magazine compared to Q’s magazine is the dress code. I
thought the fact that all 4 men were dressed in smart black clothes made the picture look very
sophisticated but also made them look imposing which is also the impression I wanted Bella to give off.
11. The font in Vibe magazine is very
simple and uninteresting. All of the
fonts are the same, but they vary
between red and white and larger
and in the font sizes. Although, this
goes well with the layout of the
magazine, the simple writing actually
looks effective and interesting. I
decided to on one side of the
magazine to have this simple writing
and on the other side of the
magazine to have posh writing and
another style of plugs. This was to
draw in different audiences and also
to give my readers mixed vibes of
what sort of information and artists
were going to be inside.
12. I completely followed
conventions when it
came to the plugs of my
magazine. I thought by
listing some of the artists
names who were
involved inside the
magazine was a really
good idea as it gives the
readers of the magazine
more of an idea of which
other artists they may be
interested about reading
about are in the
magazine.
I followed conventions when it came to
the colour scheme as I felt the colours
red and black stood out and gave the
magazine prominence, significance and
authority.
13. I didn’t follow
conventions when it
came to the plugs of Q
magazine. Firstly I didn’t
follow them as they were
at the bottom of the page
and I didn’t want to put
my plugs at the bottom
as I didn’t want any
writing or information
layering over my picture.
When deciding on colours,
I used a red which is a
bright and powerful colour
instead of using the grey
which is what Q used,
which is a dull boring
colour. The red gave the
magazine prominence,
distinction and eminence.
14. I didn’t follow the conventions of Vibe magazine, as Vibe didn’t have a big cover line which
stands out compared to the plugs, which is what I did.
15. I followed the conventions when it came
to XXL magazine. For example: I put my
cover line in the same place of which
XXL’s was also. I also followed the
conventions of the colour scheme, where
in Vibe magazine, they had a gold and I
also used gold, but just a darker shade.
I also followed conventions of Vibe
magazine, by putting a small cover line
underneath the main one. Vibe magazine’s
was “Watch the Throne” and my
magazine’s was “Catch the Fire”. This is so
it made our cover lines look more
interesting and in depth.
16. I didn’t follow the conventions when I
was creating my cover line, purely as
the cover line of Q magazine, was in
the bottom left hand corner, and I
spread my cover line out covering the
whole of the bottom of my picture.
I didn’t use a white colour when
constructing my cover line. I didn’t use
this colour scheme as I wanted my
magazine to express fortune and
wealth, and the colour gold symbolises
this.
17. I chose to be unique with my headline and not go
for something similar to Vibe’s as I didn’t think it
made it clear enough to its audience that it was
the contents page. Where as on mine, you could
clearly tell it was the contents page due to me
putting it at the top.
I followed the conventions of putting a few
pictures on my contents page. I think by
doing this it makes the contents page more
interesting and attention-grabbing.
I followed the conventions of using big numbers
to make it eye-catchy of what were the more
important and top stories in the magazine.
I thought the idea of having a different layout of
contents writing on the side of the contents
page was really interesting and different, so I
decided to follow this convention. This split the
writing up a little bit and made it look more
colourful, attractive and appealing.
I decided to put the name of my magazine
on the bottom of every page, next to the
page number just like vibe magazine did.
18. I didn’t do my headline like XXL magazine,
purely due to the fact I wasn’t using a two
page contents page, I was using one page,
also, I didn’t think XXL made it clear enough
that it was a contents page, due to it not
having a “contents” at the top. However, the
way XXL done their contents page, linked
well with the genre.
I follow the conventions of having big page
numbers and then a small description of
what the article is actually about underneath
the name of the page and the page number.
I followed conventions of various smaller
pictures, instead of just one picture. This is as I
wanted to show my readers pictures of the
main articles bands, so they would have more
idea of the genre of the band and what they
look like.
I didn’t follow the conventions of only
sticking to one layout of the contents page,
this is why I added in “The sub-zero
review”. This is so that on the contents
page, it had all sorts of different information
on, not just page’s, this prevents it from
becoming boring and repetitive.
19. I followed the conventions of the headline, as I thought the way
Q had set out their headline, made it very clear that it was the
contents page, it also had the name of the magazine there and
also the date, so I thought it do a similar sort of thing.
I followed the conventions of the separate part on the side
of the contents page. This is so that my contents page
wasn’t getting repetitive and boring, and that it had some
different information on as well, such as: news, live gig ect
which is in “The sub-zero review” and “The Q Review” on
the side of both magazines.
I followed the conventions of the pictures. I used 3 small
pictures on my contents page due to wanting to show
the people who read my magazine, what the bands look
like ect. This is also what they do on Q magazine.
I followed the conventions of putting a circled
shape on my feature article picture on the
contents page saying “cover story” just to make
it obvious to the readers that it was that story
which was the main story, they also done this on
Q magazine.
20. Q magazine
Vibe magazine
Vibe magazine
I followed the
conventions all 3
magazines by using
big page numbers. I
done this so that the
page numbers were
very clear and visible
and readers would find
it really easy and
simple to find the page
you were looking for.
I followed the conventions of all
3 magazines by writing small
descriptions underneath the
page number and title of the
page so that my readers would
have an idea of what the story
was about before deciding
whether to read it or not.
21. Vibe Magazine XXL Magazine Q Magazine
I followed the conventions of the
colour red as it conveys power
and authority.
I followed the conventions of the
colour gold as it conveys fortune
and wealth.
I followed the conventions of using big
page numbers so that the readers can
follow the magazine easier and will find
it clear to go to the page they want to
read.
I didn’t follow the conventions of XXL’S
black and white layout as I wanted my
pictures to be in colour.
22. I didn’t follow conventions when taking my
pictures and also when choosing my layout. I
didn’t want to take up a whole page with a
picture, so I decided to use half of a page and
also used more than one picture, whereas Vibe
only used one big one.
I didn’t follow conventions on the
headline. I didn’t particularly like the
way the headline had been done in Vibe
magazine, I didn’t think it was very
clear. Whereas, my headline is very
clear, and I have used two types of
fonts to make it a little more interesting.
I decided that instead of writing a
biography/story about Bella, like
Vibe did about Robin Thicke and
Janelle Monade, I would write an
interview that Bella had been
answering, I done this as I think it
would be more interesting and
intriguing for my audience to read.
In my writing, I varied with the colour of my
writing, unlike Vibe magazine. Either way of
whether I done an interview or story, I would of
varied with colours as I think it just makes it
look more appetising to read and doesn’t look
boring.
23. I decided not to go for the same style of
headline as XXL did, as I wanted my
double page spread to look
sophisticated, classy and urban, not
unsophisticated. This is as, where XXL
have used “#TWERK” as their headline,
this would appeal to only one set of
age-group due to them being the only
people who understand, and I want my
magazine to appeal to everyone.
Instead of just using 2 large
pictures across my feature
article, I decided to use various
small pictures, this is so that the
readers would have more of an
idea of Bella and so that it would
be more visual and interesting.
I decided not to follow conventions
when it came to the style of writing I
used on my feature article. Instead of
“biography” style, I decided to write
an interview, as I thought this would
make it more interesting and
fascinating to read.
24. I decided to follow conventions of Q
magazine with the amount of pictures. I
decided that instead of doing 1 page of a full
picture, that I’d do a few smaller pictures
dotted around. This is so that the feature
article looked more eye-catchy and
interesting for readers.
I decided not to follow conventions
with the “It’s a wrap” section on the
side of Q’s feature article. This is as
I felt It didn’t have much relevance
to the article itself, and it was just
there as a filler to take up the
remaining of the page.
I didn’t put a caption on my picture,
which I now realise I should of
done. This is a convention of this
feature article which if I was to do
the magazine again, I would do.
I decided to instead of leaving it
plain like Q magazine did, to put
in a microphone, just so that
before the readers had red the
article, they already knew that
she was a singer.
25. Vibe Magazine
XXL Magazine I didn’t follow the conventions when choosing how
to write my text as I wrote it as an interview
instead of a “story” like Vibe and Q magazine did.
Q Magazine
I followed conventions when it came to XXL’s
style of writing as I decided to do an interview
instead of a biography style of writing.
I followed the conventions of all 3 magazines by
writing in 3 columns, I did this so it looked neat and
tidy.
26. How does your media
product represent
particular social groups?
27. The age group of my magazine audience is around 16-25, I predict this as throughout my magazine I have used
younger bands
For Bella, I have made her out to be a confident, independent, strong-minded women with big plans ahead of
her that she will fight to get there instead of making her out to be timid and shy.
I have also made her seem a lot older than she is although she is only 17, to show the maturity that some young
adults do actually have.
I showed this mostly through the pictures I took of her which was her all dressed in black which I done to
represent sophistication, classiness and elegance and in a picture on the feature article, I took a picture of her in
a red t-shit, this red was to represent the power, authority and influence she had.
28. Emergent Service Workers: This new class has
low economic capital but has high levels of
'emerging' cultural capital and high social capital.
This group are young and often found in urban
areas.
The class of my audience would be Emergent
Service workers and I found this out by going on
BBC and looking at the Great British survey
results.
This is summing up that I predict my
audience/readers would be people who go to
concerts and gigs with friends a lot of the time to
watch indie bands and RnB concerts (eg- the
1975 band as an indie band and Rihanna as a
RnB concert).
29. My magazine is open and would appeal to both types of gender, boy and girl. This is as I have included information
for both genders to be interested in.
For example: I have included both pictures of boys and girls and information about boy and girl bands on the
contents page and obviously a main picture of Bella on the front and a few on the feature article.
This means that for example, men could look at the men as aspirational figures and would want to read about
them because they want to be more like them and want to read about their lives ect, but could also be attracted to
the women in the magazine and want to read about them to find out what their “perfect lady would be like” or
something, this would be the same for women just the other way round.
30. What have I learnt about
technologies from the
process of constructing
this product?
31. After trying out a lot of different ideas, I decided to place my masthead in a bright red box in the top left hand corner of
my page. I decided the red box as it would make the masthead stand out and also red is a very powerful colour.
At the side of the photoshop
document there is a row of
different things you can do. I
clicked on the rectangle symbol
which produced this black
rectangular box.
After I had produced
the rectangular box, I
didn’t want it to be
black so wanted to
change it to the colour
red.
I changed the
colour of the
box by pressing
this colour icon
and finding the
specific shade
of red I
wanted.
32. After I created the
red rectangular
box, I wrote the
first part of my
masthead in it,
which was “Sub”.
I didn’t want to keep it to
the original font as I
wanted it to be thicker and
bolder so changed the font
to “Franklin Gothic Book”
from “Calibri (Body)”.
This was the end result
once I had changed the
font.
33. I then decided I didn’t
want my masthead to
be all black, so decided
to change it to white as
it would still be clear
and stand out on top of
the red background.
This was the result after I
had changed the colour
of my masthead.
I then added in “zero”
and decided to put it
into the “S” of the
“Sub” this is so it didn’t
take up to much room
and also so that it
looked more
interesting and
creative.
34. When looking at my masthead, I
didn’t think it stood out enough,
so I decided to put a black bolder
around the white writing. I done
this by clicking on the button
“Edit Full” on the right hand side
of the photoshop programme.
This is the end result of my
masthead.
35. I needed to crop my
front cover picture
due to only wanting
the model on it and
not the blue
background.
I done this by
clicking on the
rubber symbol on
the left hand side
of the photoshop
programme.
Then selecting “Magic Eraser
Tool”. The magic eraser tool
makes the whole of the
background cut straight away
but leaves the picture with
slightly uneven edges which
you need to sort out later on in
the process.
36. Once I had cropped the
photo using the magic eraser
tool, the edges needed to be
straightened up.
To straighten up the outline of
the picture I had to zoom in so
that I didn’t cut off any bits of
hair ect. To zoom in, I had to
press the magnified glass on
the side of the page.
When I had pressed the
magnified glass button, I
started off by zooming in on the
part I thought looked the most
rigid and the carry on from
there.
37. I then clicked on the “Eraser Tool”
on the side of the page. This tool
was a small rubber which rubbed
out any rigid bits on the picture that
were not needed and had to go.
This is the difference and
end result of what it was
like after I had used the
“Eraser Tool” on my front
cover picture , a lot more
smooth and level.
After using the eraser
tool for all of the picture,
this was the result.
38. The next step was to move the picture over to my
magazine front cover. To do this I had to click on
the picture and drag it over to the front cover
page.
This was the end result.
39. I started off by writing out the cover
line “Bella” in size 70 font in the
place where I wanted to place it on
the page.
I then decided I
wanted to go for
a bolder and
thicker font, so
changed it to
“KaiTi”.
From when I had changed my
font, I think it already looked
a lot more eye-catchy and
appealing to an audience.
40. I then decided that I
wanted to use a
more dominant and
interesting colour, so
I decided to use the
colour gold. This
represents fortune
and wealth also.
As the gold didn’t show up very
well on the picture, I decided to
put a black border around my
writing to make it stand out more.
I don’t this by clicking on the
“Effects” on the right hand side of
the page and clicked on the thin
black border.
41. I then decided to add a
different bit to the bottom
of my cover line. I done it
in a simple font and the
colour black.
I decided that the font
was to “simple” for
the genre of my
magazine, so decided
to change it to a more
exciting and
interesting font.
The same as the top of the
cover line, the black didn’t
show very well when placed
onto the picture, so I
decided to again to change
the colour to gold.
42. The gold didn’t show again,
very well when placed on the
picture and wasn’t as clear as
I wanted it to be, so I decided
to use the black border
around the writing, like I did
on the top of the cover line.
This was the end result of my
cover line once I had complete d
it.
43. Firstly, I decided I
wanted to put my
“contents” headline in a
rectangle.
This is the rectangle it
created. I then decided I
wanted to change the
colour to red as it was a
more powerful colourful. I
also changed the colour so
it stuck to the colour
scheme of the magazine
which is Black, White,
Gold and Red.
44. I then wrote “Contents” in
the rectangle in Calibri
(Body) which is the font it
automatically writes in
and the colour black.
I then change the font from
Calibri (Body) to PMingLiu
as I didn’t want the
headline to be as bold and
“in your face” as the one
previously was, but still
kept the colour black.
This was the end result of
this part of my contents
headline process.
45. I then decided to add
the date in the top box
due to people wanting
to know what date the
magazine was brought
out, the know if they
were up to date with
the magazines.
I decided to keep it
to the same font as
the headline which
was PMingLiu, but
put it in italic and
bold.
I then decided
that I didn’t want
the date to be in
black as I didn’t
want it all to be
black, so I
decided to
change the
colour to white,
so that it would
still stick to the
colour scheme
and be clear to
read.
46. This was the end result
of this colour change of
my date.
I then decided to add a
“Subzero” into the rectangle
as I think its important to
have to masthead of the
whole magazine on every
page.
I then changed the
font of “Subzero” to
“Batang” as I thought
it was a larger and
thinner font which is
what I wanted.
47. This is what it
looked like once I
had changed the
font of “Subzero”.
Although I did
think it looked a bit
boring and minor,
so I thought I’d add
something more
interesting.
To make it more interesting and
appealing to the audience, I decided
to put a gold glittery effect around the
writing, this is so that it was given a
sense of dominance and importance
but also so it looked more engaging
and attractive for the audience to
look at. It also still links into the
colour scheme of the magazine which
is: Black, White, Gold and Red.
This is the result.
48. In the long process of my contents
page, I finally decided to put big
page numbers with my contents
page descriptions. This is so that the
readers would find it really easy and
clear to find the page they wanted to
go to.
When I first wrote the number “5” it was very thin,
dainty and small. This wasn’t how I wanted my
numbers to be as they wasn’t a clear and visible as I
imagined. So I changed the font to “Verdena” from
“Calibri (Body)” as it’s a thicker and larger font and also
set to size from a “20” to a “35” to make the number
pages a lot more visible and clear.
49. I started off with this
picture which I wanted to
be small in a corner of my
contents page to represent
and show the audience
who “Bella” was. To do this,
I had to crop the picture so
that I just had Bella without
a background.
To do this I had to start off with
the “Magic Eraser Tool” which
rubs out all of the background
around “Bella” and leaves just
her body.
As good as this tool is, it still
leaves little marks not rubbed
out and also leaves the edges
around Bella rather rigid and
uneven.
50. So that I could sort out
these rigid and uneven
lines, I had to use the
magnified glass tool to
zoom into the bits that
needed to be sorted out
and straightened and
smoothed out to make
them more even.
I started this by zooming into the
bottom part of the picture as was
going to make my way up. This
picture is of my models leg, which
is look rather uneven, so I thought
I had better even it out so it didn’t
look messy when moving it onto
my magazine contents page.
To straighten the edges out and
make them more even, I had to
select the tool “Eraser Tool” to go
forward and do this.
51. Once I had used the
“Eraser Tool” on the
whole of the picture, it
looked a lot more neat
and tidy, so it was ready
to go on to my magazine
contents page.
To do this I had to put both of my
magazine contents page and the
picture document next to each other,
then click onto the picture and drag it.
When the picture was
on my magazine
contents page, I made it
the correct size that I
wanted it and then
placed it in the correct
place I wanted it to be.
This is the end result of
this part of my
magazine contents page.
52. When starting with my
headline of my feature
article page, I decided I
wanted to write Bella in a
large, sophisticated font, in
black and make it very bold.
This meant that I had to
change the font to a more
aristocratic and superior
font.
I then decided to
add “Of The Ball”
underneath it, to
give the
impression off
“Bella” being
“royal” and
“imperial” as it is
royal people who
normally go to
“balls”.
53. I then changed the “Of The Ball” to a font called
“Edwardian Script IT” as it was a more royal, posh
and grand font, which was the style I was going
for.
54. I then decided I wanted to
change the colour of the
“Of The Ball” as I didn’t
want everything on the
page to be in black and I
wanted a brighter colour,
by adding this colour still
meant I was sticking to
the colour scheme of the
magazine as well.
This is the end result of when I
changed “Of The Ball” to the
colour red.
55. This is the picture I wanted to
put onto my double page
spread, but didn’t want to
put it on because of the light
reflections you can see on
the board. So I decided to
colour it in and make it work.
To do this I had to use
the “Brush Tool”.
After colouring in the
background in a similar blue
colour to the original photo
and going over the writing in
a thin black made the picture
look more effective and
interesting and there wasn’t
any light reflections to be
seen.
56. In what kind of media
institution might
distribute my media
product and why?
57. I personally think Quincy Jones & Time Inc. who partnered up
to publish Vibe would publish my magazine. I think this as our
audiences would be rather similar if not, the same and we also
use similar colour schemes, layouts, camera angles ect.
I think that Q magazine would publish my magazine due to
having similar audience types and although Q isn't a RnB
magazine, our magazines are extremely similar. This is as Q
adds in different information and doesn’t just stick to their one
genre, which is what I have done also.
I think that XXL magazine
would publish my
magazine due to similar
audience types and also
similar layouts and colour
schemes. Inside they also
write interviews instead of
a “story layout” which is
what I have also done.
59. Sub-zero is designed to interest an audience of both
sex’s ranging from ages from 16-25. I have made my
magazine a unisex magazine so that this would
hopefully increase the sales of my product.
My magazine includes various interviews from all
different “top class” celebrities, not always being
RnB artists, seeing when their next tours are and
interesting news and gossip.
I decided to involve lots of different information so
that my magazine would appeal to a collection of
different people and also so that everything in my
magazine isn’t always the same, similarly like artists
such as: Rihanna, Trey Songz, Nicki Minaj & Drake
who never stick to one certain genre.
60. I was required to survey around 20-25 people of a
range of the ages 16-32 that were specifically fit
the criteria/genre my magazine was going to be
aimed at. I created a questionnaire of 14
questions and in each question I asked had a
purpose in terms of helping me construct my
magazine. By doing this gave me a clear insight
to what I needed to do to my magazine to make it
specifically appeal to the audience I was aiming it
at.
61. • In the account of the results I received
from my audiences, gave me a clearer
idea of what I was going to do with my
magazine and what they would prefer.
It made it a lot easier for me also as I
knew exactly what the audience I was
aiming at liked and preferred.
• From this survey I decided that I was going
to for example: use the colour scheme
“Black, White, Red and Gold” on the
contents page as this is what the audiences
wanted, but I also then decided to stick to
the same colour scheme throughout the
magazine.
63. + + + =
I used the colour scheme Red, Black, White & Gold throughout my magazine. I used these colours as they
are all powerful colours. The colours all mean something also, I used the colour red as it is a powerful,
dominant but also passionate colour, this links with the passion that all of the artists have for their music
in this industry but also the power and composition in the industry. The black represents sophistication
and classy style which link to all artists when they go up to the red carpet and the Brit Awards ect. The
white represents happiness and faithfulness which represents how artists feel most of the time about
their jobs and that they are very faithful for the lucky life they have and the colour gold represents wealth
and fortune which most artists are also associated with.
I think this attracted my audience as the colours are all quite bright colours which makes the magazine
eye-catchy and stand out. It also makes it look more fun and exciting. Another thing is when looking at the
magazine it looks warm and kind as the colours are all quite light and friendly, where as if I had used the
colours: Black, navy blue, dark green and brown the magazine would have looked fierce and violent.
64. I decided to write descriptions under my page
numbers and titles. I decided to do this as I
thought it would give the readers more of an
idea about the artist before they read the
article about them, this could also help them
decide on whether they actually want to go
forward and read the whole article. The
description is just a small brief of what the
article is mainly about. For example, Died in
Orbit page was about the boys winning their
first trophy at the Brit Awards 2013.
I think this attracted the audience as it shows
that the magazine company is well organised
and wants to give their audience as much
information as they possible can about the
artists. It also would make the reader feel like
it is worth the money as it has all the
information in they want to know and most
probably more.
65. I decided that instead of
writing a simple story about
Bella, I would write an
interview. I done this as an
interview as I thought it
would be more interesting
and you would end up
finding out more about their
person life and how they
personally would react to
certain situations
I feel like this would attract
my audience as an interview
is a lot more interesting and
exciting to read as it can get
more personal and deep into
the individuals life. You also
get an idea of how directly
“Bella” speaks and acts to
certain situations.
66. Writing some of the
most famous RnB
artists on the front of
my magazine would
attract my audience,
as RnB fans, who
would be the
audience of this
magazine, would
most probably be
interested in these
artists as they are the
best of the best.
I think my audience
would want this to be
in this way as they
would be aware of
what big RnB stars
are in the magazine,
which would help
them make up their
mind about whether
they wanted to buy
it.
The colour scheme of my
magazine throughout is
Black, White, Red &
Gold. I think this would
attract my audience as
all of the colours are
quite powerful,
dominant colours which
would catch the readers
eye. They are also
mature colours, and this
would appeal to my
audience as they would
feel more superior and
important.
I think my audience
would want it to be like
this as he colours I have
used look neat and also
allows everything to look
clear and visual to look
at, they are bright
colours which also
permit it to look fun and
entertaining.
67. I decided to use a range of different pictures, one of
a boy group, one of a girl group and one of a girl
single artist. This is so that it could attract a variety of
people who could either be interested in Bella, No
limits, Died in orbit or all of them. I also decided to
include massive artists pages such as “Lady Gaga,
Disclosure, Arctic Monkeys”. I think this would appeal
to my audience as not only would they be reading
about the star they loved but also they could read
about stars they didn’t know so much about for
example: Bella who is a new star and could find out a
little bit more about her. In all of the pictures, I also
decided to show the characters “personality” in their
pictures, for example: in the girl band “No Limits”
picture they are all hard faced with no emotion
which would automatically give the audience an idea
that they were not “pop music” but something more
“hard”.
I think my audience would have wanted to do my
pictures/ contents page in this way as they could see
what the “main stories” artists look like and have
more of an idea of them before they have even read
the article.
68. I decided to add “The
sub-zero Review”
onto my contents
page as I wanted to
add something extra
instead of just having
a “simple” contents
page.
I think this would
appeal to my
audience and I feel
like my audience
would have wanted
me to do this as it
gives them extra
information, not just
of the pages that
certain things are on,
but also extra
information and Live
Tours, New Albums
and Celeb News. This
makes it more
interesting for the
readers.
I decided to do my page
numbers on my contents
page reasonably large so
that it was clear to the
audience exactly what
page had what
information on. I also
decided to do my “title”
in red and description of
the story in black so that
they stood out from each
other.
I think this would appeal
to my audience and I feel
like my audience would
have wanted me to do
this as it makes their lives
a lot more easier as it is
very clear and visible
exactly what is the title,
what is the description
and where the
information is (page
numbers).
69. I decided to do my
story, instead of just
writing a “biography” of
Bella, I decided to do an
interview.
I feel like this would
appeal to my audience
and feel like my
audience would have
wanted me to do this as
an interview is a lot
more interesting and
exciting to read as it can
get more personal and
deep into the
individuals life. You also
get an idea of how
directly “Bella” speaks
and acts to certain
situations.
When deciding on
how to do my
headline for my
feature article, I
wanted it to sort of,
reflect on Bella's
life. So, Bella is a
very smart, elegant
person which is
where the “Bella”
font comes from
and the colour black
as black is a very
urbane and classy
colour, but she can
also have a lot of
fun and is a very loving and caring person which is why I wrote “Of The Ball”
in a more fun, enjoyable font in the colour red which indicates love, passion
and joy.
I feel like this would appeal to my audience and feel like my audience
would have wanted me to do this as the colours and fonts of the
headline imply Bella’s nature and personality, which automatically give
people a “warm” feeling about her.
70. The language I have used for the contents page
is in the middle of formal and in-formal. This is
because I don’t know the academic levels of my
audience, so I thought I’d do a mix of simple and
sophisticated words to please both parties.
The language I used when making my
feature article was in-formal but not really
simple. I decided to do this as there is
more writing so it is probably easier for
readers to read it if it isn't in massively
sophisticated language, also Bella isn't a
“posh” girl, she is just your “normal
everyday girl”.
71. What have I learnt in the
progression of my
preliminary task and my
full product?
72. This is my school magazine front cover
that I created when I first started my
Media A Level.
This is my music magazine front cover.
73. My cropping on my music magazine compared to my school magazine is massive.
On the school magazine, I have cropped little parts of my boy model’s head off,
this is something I have learnt through time and its became easier for me to crop
pictures smoothly and more neatly (like I have in my music magazine) as I have
come to terms more with photoshop and learnt how to understand and use it
more ect.
74. The colour-scheme on my school magazine was Blue and Yellow and then my model was dressed in
red. These colours did not link or look right. The colours went against each other and made the
magazine look messy.
On my Music Magazine, I used the colour scheme: Red, Gold, White and Black. All of these colours are
powerful and all look good and go well with each other, but they also go with the genre of music
representing power and wealth.
I have improved as I have looked at other magazines and took in what colours they have used and
researched the meanings of the colours to see if they represent anything, which they normally do, so I
wanted to go for the same type of thing for my music magazine, whereas I never done this on my
School Magazine.
75. This is my school magazine contents
page.
This is my music magazine contents
page.
76. On my school magazine, I didn’t use any pictures and just left the background black and simple.
It makes the magazine look plain and boring and I wouldn’t personally buy a magazine what
looked like this.
With my music magazine, I added 3 photos of my 3 original bands which were the most “talked
about” and “biggest stories” in the magazine, this is so that the audience would get an idea of
what the artists looked like ect.
77. On my music magazine, I didn’t write descriptions under my pages and page numbers, I just wrote the
page numbers and the titles of the pages.
On my music magazine I wrote a small description underneath each of the page numbers and titles.
This is so the audience would get a small idea of what the article is about so they could make the
decision if they wanted to read it or not.
78. Cropping Skills.
Editing Techniques
(Eg – Using borders
around text, using
shadows on texts,
backgrounds and
photos, glittery
effects on writing
ect).
o I personally think that I have improved on
everything in photoshop and that is why the
contrast of my two magazine’s are massive.
